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Charts in Excel - please help.
Hi everyone,
I have an Excel spreadsheet with a bunch of charts that I present to a group of people each week. Currently, I have all the charts on one sheet and just page down from one to the next before giving my little speech on each. My problem is that I constantly seem to be altering row heights and such to make each chart fill the whole page so that paging down flicks from one complete chart to the next. My question is, is there a better way to present a sequence of charts within Excel so clicking one button goes from one to the next? I don't want to move the charts to powerpoint. I did think that maybe detaching each chart from the workbook so that they effectively float above the rows and don't change dimensions when the row heights change, but I'm not sure how that might be done. What are my options? Thanks a lot guys for any help. Kim |
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Charts in Excel - please help.
I can think of a couple of quick solutions --
One is you could put each chart in a seperate worksheet within your workbook and you could click across the tabs to each one. If your charts are always the same, or you don't mind soing some copying and pasting when they do change --- you can copy them out of Excel and into a word or powerpoint document and then page through them that way. Eric "Kim" wrote: Hi everyone, I have an Excel spreadsheet with a bunch of charts that I present to a group of people each week. Currently, I have all the charts on one sheet and just page down from one to the next before giving my little speech on each. My problem is that I constantly seem to be altering row heights and such to make each chart fill the whole page so that paging down flicks from one complete chart to the next. My question is, is there a better way to present a sequence of charts within Excel so clicking one button goes from one to the next? I don't want to move the charts to powerpoint. I did think that maybe detaching each chart from the workbook so that they effectively float above the rows and don't change dimensions when the row heights change, but I'm not sure how that might be done. What are my options? Thanks a lot guys for any help. Kim |
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Charts in Excel - please help.
Thanks Eric but it's not really what I'm after.
Are there any other options? Eric wrote: I can think of a couple of quick solutions -- One is you could put each chart in a seperate worksheet within your workbook and you could click across the tabs to each one. If your charts are always the same, or you don't mind soing some copying and pasting when they do change --- you can copy them out of Excel and into a word or powerpoint document and then page through them that way. Eric "Kim" wrote: Hi everyone, I have an Excel spreadsheet with a bunch of charts that I present to a group of people each week. Currently, I have all the charts on one sheet and just page down from one to the next before giving my little speech on each. My problem is that I constantly seem to be altering row heights and such to make each chart fill the whole page so that paging down flicks from one complete chart to the next. My question is, is there a better way to present a sequence of charts within Excel so clicking one button goes from one to the next? I don't want to move the charts to powerpoint. I did think that maybe detaching each chart from the workbook so that they effectively float above the rows and don't change dimensions when the row heights change, but I'm not sure how that might be done. What are my options? Thanks a lot guys for any help. Kim |
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Slight variation on Eric's suggestion. Change the location of each chart to
its own chart sheet (not worksheet) and size each chart to the window. Tools menu Options Chart tab, check Chart Sizes with Window Frame checkbox. Use CTRL with Page Up and Page Down to switch sheets. I understand that you want the charts on a single worksheet, but the above will be more reliable as monitor settings may change. A (somewhat sloppy) single worksheet option, for the case in which all that's on the worksheet is the charts, would be to make the rows as tall as possible (limited to 409.5 points) and the columns as wide as will fit on screen, then size each chart to a single cell. You could futz with the zoom so the row height is about as tall as the useful window height, although zooms other than 100% may have strange effects on charts. Scrolling down will always go to the next chart (the next row), at least as long as the row height is more than half the useful window height. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Kim" wrote in message ups.com... Thanks Eric but it's not really what I'm after. Are there any other options? Eric wrote: I can think of a couple of quick solutions -- One is you could put each chart in a seperate worksheet within your workbook and you could click across the tabs to each one. If your charts are always the same, or you don't mind soing some copying and pasting when they do change --- you can copy them out of Excel and into a word or powerpoint document and then page through them that way. Eric "Kim" wrote: Hi everyone, I have an Excel spreadsheet with a bunch of charts that I present to a group of people each week. Currently, I have all the charts on one sheet and just page down from one to the next before giving my little speech on each. My problem is that I constantly seem to be altering row heights and such to make each chart fill the whole page so that paging down flicks from one complete chart to the next. My question is, is there a better way to present a sequence of charts within Excel so clicking one button goes from one to the next? I don't want to move the charts to powerpoint. I did think that maybe detaching each chart from the workbook so that they effectively float above the rows and don't change dimensions when the row heights change, but I'm not sure how that might be done. What are my options? Thanks a lot guys for any help. Kim |
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